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ProMash Revision History - V1.2.A

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Version 1.2.a Upgrade
Posted 08-07-99

New Features and Enhancements:
  1. By far the biggest enhancement to Version 1.2 is the new database import functionality.

    All database's now have an 'Import' feature. This will allow users to download new ingredient lists (hops, malt, yeast, etc.) as they become available, from the ProMash website and import them into their existing database. This means that when the ProMash databases are upgraded, you won't have to download the entire new database, wiping out any custom entries you may have had. New items are simply imported to your current database.

    Additionally, if an item is overwritten (we may correct spelling or data errors in some entrys and include the corrected version in the import file) your inventory will remain in-tact, as well as alpha/beta modification in the hops database and gravity/color modifications in the malt database. Of course, you are prompted about all of this while it is happening, and you may choose to cancel individual elements or the entire import at will.

    With this new import functionality we also introduce the first hop and yeast import files!

    New Hops Include: Ahtanum, Horizon, Magnum, Tomahawk, Vangaurd, Amarillo Gold, Ultra, Columbus, Bramling Cross, Strisselspalt, Progress, Wye Challenger, Wye Northdown, Wye Target.

    New Yeast Strains Include: White Labs Burton Ale Yeast White Labs Edinburgh Ale Yeast White Labs German Ale/Kolsch Yeast White Labs Hefeweizen IV Ale Yeast.

  2. When printing database lists, and a particular type of sub-ingredient is chosen (for instance, Extract in the Malt section), the title of the printouts now reflect the title of the dialogs, with the particular sub-choice printed in the title.

  3. Both The Yeast and Extra database picking dialogs have had 'Type Choice' Radio Buttons added to their functionality. The dialogs now function similar to the Malt and Hops dialogs.

UI Modification:
  1. The Main Menu bar has been reorganized. Consolidated Recipe and Brewing session options to the 'File' options caption. Changed Settings to Options. Imbedded About into the Help pull down.

  2. When a New Recipe is created, all individual ingredient dialog buttons for Malts, Hops and Extras (with the exception of the 'New' button) are now disabled until at least 1 ingredient is chosen. Additionally, deleting all elements in either the Malts, Hops or Extras sections will cause the buttons (again with the exception of the 'New' button) to be disabled. Buttons become active when at least 1 ingredient in a particular section is added. This eliminates any bugs caused by using the buttons before an actual ingredient is in the section. These rules also apply to recipes within brewing sessions.

  3. In Grain and Hop picking dialogs, the buttons to change from Grain/ExtractSugar and Whole/Plug/Pellet selections have been changed to Windows style radio buttons. This should make it a tad easier in determining exactly what you are looking at.

  4. In a Brewing Session's Bottling dialog, the radio buttons designated for 'Bottling, Kegging, Serving Tanks' have been changed to Windows checkboxes, as multiple choices can be made.

  5. All minor message boxes have had there title labelling removed (Message, Error, Question) and replaced by the familiar Windows message box icons (Information, Exclamation, Question).

  6. When a brewing sessions inventory has been finalized, the 'Finalize' button will now be disabled whenever that brewing session is subsequently loaded, as opposed to popping a warning dialog that you cannot finalize inventory twice.

Bug Fixes:
  1. A bug introduced in 1.0i that would cause both the inventory screen and bottling screen (within a brewing session) to not display the dialog's information until it was pulled up a second time. This has been fixed.

  2. When you modified a hop type (whole, plug, pellet) in the hop database, then clicked 'Ok' before saving, you were not prompted to save the data as you would have been with anything else. This has been fixed.

  3. In the grain and hop database, you could not enter in a inventory value past 1000. You could accumulate values larger but had to enter values below 1000. This ceiling has been changed to 100,000.

  4. If using metric measurements, and you modified the wort size (not batch size, wort size) below 4 liters, the calculator slammed the value to 1.0 and you had to exit and come back to make a modification. This has been fixed.